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August 6, 2020 in Editorials // ROTHENBURGER – B.C. needs to go back to the drawing boards on return-to-school plan
August 5, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – We need to stop stigmatizing North Shore in crime reports
August 5, 2020 in Featured Comment // FEATURED COMMENT – Note to City council: Brocklehurst Lives Matter
August 5, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – New name for B.C. Day would be another step toward reconciliation
August 4, 2020 in Other Voices // SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation

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KNOX – Figuring out who’s welcome and who’s not is a pandemic pickle

August 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT TOOK AWHILE, but I finally found one. This was the other day, when I was up in the Interior, off-Island for the first time since the drawbridge went down. On the highway, [Continue]

KNOX – Name for new Seattle NHL team fails the community test

July 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

NHL HOCKEY RESUMES next week, with all games clustered in just two cities, Toronto (“Centre of the Universe”) and Edmonton (“Gateway to Red Deer”), thanks to the [Continue]

KNOX – Self-appointed behaviour judges need to see the real picture

July 19, 2020 // 2 Comments

SHANNON UNDERDOWN-NGONGO would like to apologize. She would like to say sorry for not appearing to be legally blind, which she is. She would also like to say “my bad” for [Continue]

KNOX – Municipal dissonance is enough to drive you to drink

July 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

CENTRAL SAANICH is looking at letting people drink alcohol in its public parks. This brings three thoughts to mind: 1) Parks? We thought they only had corn fields. 2) You can [Continue]

KNOX – Thousands of Canadians trapped in India by COVID-19

July 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE PANDEMIC WAS STILL just distant thunder when Narender Cheema’s 80-year-old mother flew to northern India in January. The milder winter season seemed a good time for the [Continue]

KNOX – Wacky Jack’s Last Chance Masks turns out to be a disappointing venture

June 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS IT TURNED OUT, my brilliant idea for a roadside kiosk by the ferry terminal — Wacky Jack’s Last Chance Masks — wasn’t as lucrative as I hoped. I had dreamed of [Continue]

KNOX – This year has proven that if anything can go wrong, it will

June 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

CONGRATULATIONS. If you’re reading this, it means you were not killed by an asteroid the size of a football stadium. Yes, there was one in the neighbourhood, but evidently [Continue]

KNOX – There’s a bunch of stuff white Canadians don’t have to put up with

June 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

OUR JOKE IS that Lindsay Wong and I are doppelgangers, because we aren’t. She’s young, female, stylish, Asian, Ivy League-educated and a bunch of other things I am not. [Continue]

KNOX – ‘Kooky’ or Kryptonite? Greens split on the future

May 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

KOOKY. When former B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver (you knew he had stepped down, right?) took a highly public swipe at his likely successor last weekend, one word stood out. [Continue]

KNOX – When your name spells virus, all you can do is smile

May 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

MIKE LAM was a little wary when his brother Jim changed the message on the marquee outside their Colwood store this spring. “CORONA FOODS, NOT CORONA VIRUS,” it read. No [Continue]

KNOX – Beware of the dreaded accordivirus; it’s highly contagious

May 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGH things couldn’t get worse, some truly terrifying news: Accordion sales are going through the roof. “It’s crazy,” exclaims Martin Hergt, who owns [Continue]

KNOX – Woman awakes to be told she had died months ago

April 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

WILMA WILLIAM had a rough start to her Monday. “I got up in the morning and I was 80 years old,” she says. “But by the time I read my mail, I was dead.” This was news [Continue]

KNOX – Roger the marmot awakens to a very different world

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

HERE’S IRONY: The loneliest guy in Victoria is emerging from isolation just as the rest of us go in. We speak, of course, of Roger, the marmot, who lives on the grounds [Continue]

KNOX – Don’t give in to temptation; stay home and stay the course

April 12, 2020 // 3 Comments

IT WOULD BE DUMB, at this point, to jump out of the lifeboat and start swimming back to the Titanic. That is, we in B.C. have done an admirable job of following instructions, [Continue]